Anne of Brittany, hood or what really?
What if I said I thought the AoB hood... is just a rectangle. Would you belive me? Do I believe me?
Now, it is too late to process the photos and upload them, because I want to go to bed (hey, I had to watch all two hours of Heroes tonight). But I have been playing with the main shape that I started with, and added in the back width, and it was the front curve that kept looking wrong. So, I found a length of simple muslin fabric that I folded in half, then just draped and pinned it to the head form, and the part that was a curve on the pattern became straight, just like the images, and it drapes with what seems to be the right fullness in the back (tho that is hard to judge).
It does not address the curve of color that I saw on one image. It can address the seeming "curve" on top of the head as simply being farther back on the head. It is pinned in back under the neck.
The hard part is not finding images (yet) that show the back. This image of Anne on a coin shows a side view, but is it the same hood? The sides are longer than the ones I've been looking at. Is this maybe a semi-circular hood?
Is this all it really is? A rectangle pinned into place like a beguin? Being that they are black, and very little detail is shown, I am not sure where to go from here.
Photos sometime tomorrow. But if you have any thoughts on this, please share.
{edit: another AoB image I hadn't seen before, dated to 1508.: http://flickr.com/photos/7711591@N04/2155897281 }
Now, it is too late to process the photos and upload them, because I want to go to bed (hey, I had to watch all two hours of Heroes tonight). But I have been playing with the main shape that I started with, and added in the back width, and it was the front curve that kept looking wrong. So, I found a length of simple muslin fabric that I folded in half, then just draped and pinned it to the head form, and the part that was a curve on the pattern became straight, just like the images, and it drapes with what seems to be the right fullness in the back (tho that is hard to judge).
It does not address the curve of color that I saw on one image. It can address the seeming "curve" on top of the head as simply being farther back on the head. It is pinned in back under the neck.
The hard part is not finding images (yet) that show the back. This image of Anne on a coin shows a side view, but is it the same hood? The sides are longer than the ones I've been looking at. Is this maybe a semi-circular hood?
Is this all it really is? A rectangle pinned into place like a beguin? Being that they are black, and very little detail is shown, I am not sure where to go from here.
Photos sometime tomorrow. But if you have any thoughts on this, please share.
{edit: another AoB image I hadn't seen before, dated to 1508.: http://flickr.com/photos/7711591@N04/2155897281 }